Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

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are there options for better synchro's in the aftermarket? I guess I just assumed you'd be rebuilding back to oem spec... if the 2k rebuild option includes the improved parts that may be worth it. and if someone makes those parts, they prolly know how to rebuild the transmission...

as far as while your in there clutch, not even necessarily upgrading.. oem clutches are usually pretty cheap (as long as you don't buy them from the dealer). so unless you have super low miles, might be worth just getting a new clutch. if you're looking to upgrade, I'm more of a fan of light weight 1 pc steel flywheels over a bolted together aluminum. its rare, but you do see them fail occasionally. a steel flywheel (ACT makes good steel 1pc flywheels) might be a couple lb heavier but the piece of mind is worth it to me. and they're usually cheaper. if you stay with the stock flywheel, make sure to get it resurfaced, even if you're going to a new oem clutch.

he already purchased the trans parts. Upgraded I believe. He's looking for an installer.

also +1 on the ACT. I have the heaviest of the ACT flywheels in my car. Love it. Also steel gives some peace of mind that thing that is spinning at 7000 rpm right next to you wont fly apart and kill you

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he already purchased the trans parts. Upgraded I believe. He's looking for an installer.

also +1 on the ACT. I have the heaviest of the ACT flywheels in my car. Love it. Also steel gives some peace of mind that thing that is spinning at 7000 rpm right next to you wont fly apart and kill you

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in that case ask the part manufacturer if they have a recommended installer

I bought the Synchros and LSD from speed performance I believe. The hardware kit I bought from mountune (fucking hell one of those took forever) and they actually have a service that will rebuild it for you but it's even more expensive not including shipping to California to have them do it. I also have a contact in Florida who only does Focus ST transmission rebuilds which is nice, but that still means I gotta have a means to rip out the transmission myself (he said my overall labor price for what I was doing was fair though)

I did have a local guy reach out to me (made a post on Facebook) and said he had transmission work done near me, but it was only the clutch and fly wheel. Dunno if they'd be willing to do more. The place I currently asked seemed very willing to do clutch swaps. At least if nothing else, competing quotes

(Also the car only has 26k miles on it so the clutch is still healthy. Yes I've tried warranting it, but my local dealer won't even cough in its general direction because it's modified)

Canada, came from Canada. I've seen a couple RenNO's running around with Canadian plates on them down here in the states, rare though. Likely was totalled in Florida and so stayed in Florida, maybe flooded out and their insurance didn't want to pay to haul it back up to Poutine-land.

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I bought the Synchros and LSD from speed performance I believe. The hardware kit I bought from mountune (fucking hell one of those took forever) and they actually have a service that will rebuild it for you but it's even more expensive not including shipping to California to have them do it. I also have a contact in Florida who only does Focus ST transmission rebuilds which is nice, but that still means I gotta have a means to rip out the transmission myself (he said my overall labor price for what I was doing was fair though)

I did have a local guy reach out to me (made a post on Facebook) and said he had transmission work done near me, but it was only the clutch and fly wheel. Dunno if they'd be willing to do more. The place I currently asked seemed very willing to do clutch swaps. At least if nothing else, competing quotes

(Also the car only has 26k miles on it so the clutch is still healthy. Yes I've tried warranting it, but my local dealer won't even cough in its general direction because it's modified)

Yeah... clutch and flywheel doesn't qualify as "transmission work"... I mean I'm not necessarily saying they can't do it, but that replacing a clutch doesn't qualify anyone for a tranny rebuild

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lot of cars have dual mass flywheels now haha, I bet it is. Manual trans in "easy mode"

DMFs in cars suck

Had the clutch done in my car and felt that the clutch was slipping but I couldn't place it. Few thousand miles later and the slipping is more pronounced and it feels like I'm moving heaven and earth when I change gear. Probably gonna swap it out for a different clutch and flywheel setup.

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Would y'all know how tuning can affect startup time? My Legacy GT takes awhile to start and it's totally fine to start when it's been warmed up a little bit (say I turn the car off when filling it with gas) but in the morning it's very hard to start most of the time. Would the failing dual mass flywheel cause the hard starting?

I ask about the tuning because I recently replaced a bunch of sensors and the car definitely needs to be tuned again.

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